Wow, as if the article itself was not “yucky” enough, reading the comments about this article make me seriously ill. Do none of you have any compassion whatsoever?

Here is a 19 year-old who was raised under horrific circumstances – a severely disabled mother - a father who sexually and physically abused her - who ran away from home at age 12 because of this abuse.

HOW MANY OF YOU had absolutely no family or financial resources available to you at age 12? HOW MANY OF YOU had to leave home at age 12 to escape sexual and physical abuse?

I would much rather have this family get some to help now to make themselves and their child productive members of society.

Even if you have zero compassion and can only count the bottom line – it surely makes more sense to help them now – then to take their child into foster case or to incarcerate the parents or the child at a later date.

"Wow, as if the article itself was not “yucky” enough, reading the comments about this article make me seriously ill. Do none of you have any compassion whatsoever?"

Get over yourself, Auggie. I have tons of compassion -- for that baby -- and little hope. Some of us may have different senses of realism and possibilities than you do, that is all. I'd argue that a lot of "compassion" isn't, or isn't working. I used to work with "emotionally, educationally and financially disturbed and deprived" teenagers, and birth control is compassionate and smart.

It would seem to me that anyone who has had 5 pregnancies by age 19 (not to mention a previous child taken from her) is looking primarily for a meal ticket. My heart goes out to the real victim here, the baby.

A meal ticket -- or more probably attention or love. If there's one person guaranteed not to be able to return love, it is a baby. How we teach these kids that I do not know. Will one by one they learn that the loving is required virtually entirely to be given, not received? Or will the babies just absorb the lack.

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